I would appreciate knowing about any misinformation. I got a hold of all the sources I could but there is definitely information out there that I could not get in time. I still need to get a copy of Albion Dreaming among other things.

It’s interesting and also inspirational to see the way the texts are modified for different forms of publication. I feel that there’s often that strange mixture of an arbitrary, hap-hazard or even slovenly attitude on the part of Burroughs to the different forms some of his texts end up in, as well as a shrewd and considered approach on occasion too. We never really know quite what’s going on, though I find there are many instances of pure carelessness there just as there are remarkably good passages, especially during this period of his work.

The book Albion Dreaming (which is on LSD in Britain) specifically mentions that there is no solid, hard proof that Crick first visualized the double helix on LSD and suggested that more likely myth than fact. So if historical evidence is documents in his own hand like a diary or journal, letter etc, the answer is no. Either they dont exist or they havent been found.

Yet there is a lot of smoke for no fire. Maybe there was a fire a la Kafka’s last wish. Crick is on the scene but did he commit the “crime.” As you said the ancedotal evidence is numerous, the source I used referenced Dick Kemp, who claimed Crick let him in on the secret. This account is far from rock solid.

Thanks,
Mike